Dr David Kelly and Dennis

It was revealed yesterday that official papers about the death of Dr David Kelly, the Iraq weapons scientist hounded to his death by the Blair government for revealing Saddam Hussein had no WMD, are being kept secret for 70 years instead of the usual 30. This decision supports those who think Dr Kelly’s death was murder, not suicide.

According to a local Labour Party member, our MP Dennis Skinner opened the Bolsover Constituency Labour Party meeting at Barlborough Village Hall soon after Dr Kelly’s death in 2003 by saying that if Dr Kelly had worked for him he would have ‘f***ing sacked him.’ The Labour Party member walked out of the meeting, resigned from the Labour Party and will be voting Conservative again at the next general election.